{"id":13629,"date":"2010-04-27T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T04:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:35","slug":"kochalka-james-sketchbook-diaries-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13629","title":{"rendered":"Kochalka, James &#8211; Sketchbook Diaries Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanelf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/sketch21.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/\">Sketchbook Diaries Volume Two<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do you follow up what has been called the best book of your  career? With more of the same, apparently. I really thought that the  first Sketchbook Diaries was probably the best thing that he had done  for the sheer openness and honesty involved in it. This one followed  that up, but it also made me realize that his life borders on dull. He&#8217;d  often tell something in the four panels that would make me curious  about the rest of the day, or about the thing that he chose not to write  about it. The four panel structure was more than a little bit  restrictive, but maybe that&#8217;s what he had in mind. There was also an  extremely dull patch there right before he quit for a few months (he was  obviously burnt out creatively and came back stronger than ever), but  past that it was a solid work. His outlook on life is incredible and is  something that simultaneously annoys and fascinates me. I&#8217;ll wonder for  pages how Amy (his wife) could possibly put up with him and then I&#8217;ll go  for pages wondering how she could ever possibly leave him. Whether  that&#8217;s because of his strips or my own schizophrenia is up for you to  decide. Anyway, both of these books are cheap (this one is $7.95 and  it&#8217;s a much longer read than the rest of his books) and they&#8217;re both  incredible. He&#8217;s right, if he spent more time drawing than he does  playing video games he probably would be even more famous by now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/sketch22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Sketchbook Diaries Volume Two How do you follow up what has been called the best book of your career? With more of the same, apparently. I really thought that the first Sketchbook Diaries was probably the best thing that he had done for the sheer openness and honesty involved in it. This one followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2182,502],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-james-kochalka","tag-sketchbook-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16666,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/16666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}